tuning global tech pulse toward int'l civic data-informed products, starting in Peace Corps in Tanzania & Liberia. I am [mimeograph] years old.
Joined March 2007
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š§µ āComplex language requires shared maintenanceā reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)
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š§µ āComplex language requires shared maintenanceā reference thread (see also my thread on how computers _produce_ human intellect mid-thread)
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29 Dec 2019
Reading āEducating the Reflective Practitionerā (1988) about the then new pressure & how to help professions (medical,edu,architects,policy) better cope w nebulosity in work from @meaningness book recs. Keep thinking about how this dynamic couldāve grown crisis amidst automation
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13 Oct 2024
Reflecting back on @brightball pointless story points piece about Product Development Flow (2009) now considering trying to implement bits of the bookās queue wisdom in Factorio game
cc: @patio11
I just read this article and all I could think was... wait. You didn't already do this? You were serializing everything?
Of course they were. Software engineers serialize high-latency API calls. Same thing. It's the default.
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30 Sep 2024
This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:
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29 Sep 2024
Flocking clocks š
: Only magenta clock advances time on its own, others just show average time of neighbors
Source code: editor.p5js.org/anvaka/full/ā¦
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20 Sep 2024
I love this 2006 piece on how employer-sponsored apprenticeships may work differently and less well for women than school-based opportunities due to the turns of life.
So tacit knowledge reproduction seems likely to be gendered by our institutions, too.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/c15mfe17gā¦
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10 Sep 2024
A lot has happened since the launch of the first HOT Tasking Manager in 2011...
Today, we celebrate our first 500,000 mappers on the platform, almost the same as the population of Cape Verde! š® š
Have you mapped today? buff.ly/4e0cEZQ
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7 Sep 2024
BREAKING: The PMC COVID Forecasting Model officially sunsets Biobot.
Biobot has not reported public data in 3 weeks, during the height of the surge. They will be downgraded to 0% weight in Monday's case estimation model. CDC data will now account for 100% of case estimation.
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8 Aug 2024
Why concepts are (probably) vectors (cell.com/trends/cognitive-scā¦)
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7 Aug 2024
Lead poisoning hurts kidsā cognitive development.
Lead poisoning is also widespread across many low & middle income countries.
However, we donāt know each local source.
We can learn, discover & eradicate
Like by protecting turmeric in š§š©
7 Aug 2024
Yes, lead exposure is bad/widespread. But where's it coming from?
New CGD paper from @rachelbnfield & @RoryTodd12
cgdev.org/blog/whats-causingā¦
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30 Jul 2024
What happens when a government decides that their banking sector needs proper competition, and mandate a new payment method that is:
1. Instant (unlike bank transfers)
2. Free for consumers, very very cheap for merchants (unlike credit cards)
What Brazil did with Pix:
30 Jul 2024
As a matter of fact, today, 43% of financial transactions are made with Pix
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24 Jul 2024
Pretty cool analysis of the cultural evolution of filled pasta (link.springer.com/article/10ā¦). Gotta try them all...
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29 Jun 2024
YT version of the podcast has a GraphRAG demo which sets the scene for the rest of the rich conversation: Graphs as a translated-queryable left brain for less deterministic LLMs.
28 Jun 2024
If youāre working in #GenAI and looking for some weekend listening, check out this weekās Data Exchange podcast and my conversation with the one & only @bigdata about latest evolutions in GraphRAG:
thedataexchange.media/supercā¦
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29 Jun 2024
Metrix's accuracy prevented travel-related spreads for me & my people twice already
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27 Jun 2024
And if you're a researcher interested in running an RCT that of a chlorination program that is well-powered to detect mortality effects in children under-5, I'd love to hear from you! [my first name].[last name]@givewell.org
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3 Oct 2020
I curated a playlist and wrote an article about Tanzanian singeli for @getupradioo
#Tanzania #singeli #Swahili @NyegeNyegeFest @MarioSwagga1 getup.radio/playlists/the-guā¦
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16 Mar 2024
Assessment of indoor air quality with CO2 concentrations, anno 1888.
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7 Feb 2024
Trying something differentāgroundwater resources of Africa.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
ALT A visualisation of the groundwater resources of Africa over shaded relief
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31 Dec 2023
finally found again this beautiful illustration of the process of embracing your shadows
"About fear" by CĆ©cile Carre
works better on instagram where you view each of 6 panes one at a time, but I wanted to share it here anyway
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29 Dec 2023
you can make yourself legible to others in order to accomplish your goals or you can accomplish goals in order to make yourself legible to others
I think a lot of people get these two paths mixed upā¦
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